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Raw Milk is once again in the news. And of course, this time it is the Dreaded E. Coli 0157:H7 and children.
What I don’t get about this information in this article are the lines:
Doctors treating the children have identified the bacteria as E. coli 0157:H7. While laboratory samples of Organic Pastures raw milk have not detected E. coli 0157:H7 contamination, epidemiologic data collected by the Department of Health Services points to a link with Organic Pastures raw milk. Additional laboratory samples of Organic Pastures raw milk are pending.
These illnesses are not believed to have any connection with the recent E. coli 0157:H7 contamination in raw spinach. Typing of lab samples from one of the children shows a different strain than the one found in the spinach outbreak.
It’s tragic that children have gotten sick. Yet the lab can’t detect E. Coli in the samples of milk, but because it is Raw Milk it must be the cause of the disease because it has no link to the Spinach problem?
Typical. Raw MIlk is force to take the blame for everything. Quite often it is a symptom of ignorant and lazy dairies, but in and of itself Raw Milk is harmless. It is when it is brought into an industrial scale that things go wrong. It is a shame that Organic Pastures–which appears to be doing everything right and should be lauded–is having this kind of hassle.
When will Raw Milk cease to be a scape goat? Let’s hope the kids get well and Organic Pastures is cleared of this supposed outbreak and we focus the spotlight back on the real problem–Industrial Scale Ag washing our food in poo and chemicals.
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